Captain Marvel (2019)

a c i d.f l y said:

Re: the 90's -- Todd McFarlane (Spawn, Spider-Man), Mark Bagley/Tom Lyle (Maximum Carnage), Frank Miller (Watchmen/300), Jim Aparo/Dick Giordano/Adrienne Roy (Knightfall)... just to name a few of the giants from the 90's. It was certainly not a terrible time for comics, and I'd go so far as to say it was the decade that spawned the MCU as most of the folks working on these films are my age, who grew up on 90's comics. Also the reason they're popular, because comics were popular as fuck during the 90's.

But then you have famously bad artists for amazing characters and stories like fuckin Rob Liefeld (Deadpool, the badass Cable story-line) -- so many pockets, terrible proportions, and no feet.

Best artists today? A couple of my favorites: Jim Lee. Todd McFarlane (still). J.Scott Campbell. Ryan Ottley (e.g. below).

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It was more so that Image sort of took the industry in a weird direction. And I loved Image at the time. I still love some of the characters. Savage Dragon was probably my favourite series (Erik Larsen was an awesome artist). Mark Silvestri was incredible. But virtually nothing from that time period is worth anything. I guess it just boils down to popularity and a lack of scarcity for the actual comic books

Dom said:

That qualifies for pretty good quality with what they've been putting out for the last decade. Here's a randomly picked page from 2014 (the last year I bothered downloading comics) and this would be in the medium quality range...

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Is that Gambit? The only thing that makes me think that are the eyes.

I used to love Michael Turner's art. His style was incredible, and his women were stunning. Good stuff.

You might remember him from Witchblade & Fathom. They were his three big books.

Pirated this yesterday and watched with the GF. First superhero movie she stopped watching and just sat facebooking and complained it sucked. She prefers Thor and Spiderman though and like me don't even know who Captain Marvel is in the comics.

Finally got around to watching it. First, I want to start off by saying all the recommendations to watch this after Captain America were retarded. Yeah, chronologically it kind of makes sense, but a lot of shit doesn't make sense, like who SHIELD is, nor the mid-credits sequence which would ruin the entire god damn series if you hadn't watched it. We'll keep watching in recommended order though (which mostly follows release order anyway; this was the only very out of place one).

Anyway, the actual plot wasn't bad at all. My qualms with it are that it really does just scream "2019 SJW bullshit." Every 90's song except I believe one (Nirvana) was a female vocalist. There was a jarring amount of "girl power" type moments.

And the Brie Larson casting was bad as she was just stiff (pretty sure this has been covered extensively). I also didn't like her black pilot friend whose acting was possibly even worse. Annette Benning was also not particularly good in this. And for being a villain that should be on the "cosmic" type tier, it felt even worse (this is one spot where the writing failed).

Finally, the 90's callbacks were also jarring. It was less "Stranger Things" and more "Everything Sucks," where they just tried to cram as much bullshit in where we could go "I remember that!"

Otherwise everything with the Kree and Skrulls was pretty well done (only complaint there is the shift from bad guy to good guy all being a memory was kind of meh). And the SHIELD stuff was decent too. They really just failed in the casting department and "2019'd" the movie.